Kant and the Problem of Nothingness
Kant and the Problem of Nothingness

Author: Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1350280755

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The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant's concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla's ground-breaking work makes it available in English for the first time. Mayz Vallenilla's interpretation is deeply informed by Heidegger's reading of Kant, against the background of the early 20th century neo-Kantian tradition. He offers a detailed interpretation and critique of “nothing” as it appears in the Amphiboly chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason and presents an analysis of Kant's Table of Nothing which understands temporality as the horizon of all possible cognition[AE1] , including cognition of real nothings. Accompanied by translator's notes and a glossary, Addison Ellis' translation includes extensive commentary and an introduction providing historical context and references to the original sources in German. He preserves key terminology and phrasing from the original text and allows an often-neglected connection to be made between the Kantian tradition in Latin America and the tradition in the Anglophone world.

Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 0671867806

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Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.

Leibniz and Kant
Leibniz and Kant

Author: Brandon C. Look

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0199606366

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Although it is common to see Kant's philosophy as at its core a reaction to (and partial rejection of) the dogmatism and rationalism of Leibniz, Wolff, and their followers, it is surprising how little detailed and critical study there has been of the relation between Leibniz and Kant. How did Kant understand Leibniz's philosophy? Did he correctly understand Leibniz's philosophy? Since only a portion of Leibniz's philosophical writings were published prior to Kant's critical period, is there a "true Leibniz" that Kant did not know? Are all of Kant's criticisms of Leibniz in particular and Leibnizian rationalism in general justified? Or does Leibniz have an answer to Kant's philosophy? Moreover, how should we understand the reception of Leibniz's philosophy in 18th-century Enlightenment Germany? Leibniz and Kant seeks to examine the relation between Leibniz and Kant by collecting essays written by some of the leading scholars of the history of modern philosophy, all of whom have in common a deep knowledge of both philosophers. This anthology further aims to create a dialogue between scholars of early modern philosophy and Kantians and to fill a lacuna in historical and philosophical scholarship. The essays contained here address fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology in Leibniz and Kant and address Kant's understanding and interpretation of his philosophical predecessor.

Opus Postumum
Opus Postumum

Author: Immanuel Kant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-02-24

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521319287

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Occupying him for more than the last decade of his life, this volume includes the first English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus postumum, which he described as his "chef d'oeuvre" and the keystone of his entire philosophical system.

Being and Time
Being and Time

Author: Martin Heidegger

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-07-22

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 0061575593

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"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account." This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.

Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'
Kant's 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'

Author: Jens Timmermann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-12-24

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0521878012

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This volume discusses Kant's philosophical development in the Groundwork and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom.

Nietzsche's Critiques
Nietzsche's Critiques

Author: R. Kevin Hill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0199255830

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Kevin Hill's highly original new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy is the first to examine in detail his debt to Kant, in particular the Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Judgement. Nietzsche, Hill argues, knew Kant far better than is commonly thought, and can only be thoroughly understood in relation to Kant.; Nietzsche's Critiques maintains that beneath the surface of his texts there is a systematic commitment to a form of early Neo-Kantianism in metaphysics and epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, grounded in his reading of the three Critiques, K.

Kant & Phenomenology
Kant & Phenomenology

Author: Tom Rockmore

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-01-22

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0226723410

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Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century—and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who eventually turned phenomenology away from questions of knowledge. But here Tom Rockmore argues for a return to phenomenology’s origins in epistemology, and he does so by locating its roots in the work of Immanuel Kant. Kant and Phenomenology traces the formulation of Kant’s phenomenological approach back to the second edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In response to various criticisms of the first edition, Kant more forcefully put forth a constructivist theory of knowledge. This shift in Kant’s thinking challenged the representational approach to epistemology, and it is this turn, Rockmore contends, that makes Kant the first great phenomenologist. He then follows this phenomenological line through the work of Kant’s idealist successors, Fichte and Hegel. Steeped in the sources and literature it examines, Kant and Phenomenology persuasively reshapes our conception of both of its main subjects.

Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'
Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'

Author: Sebastian Gardner

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0826474683

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This text presents a concise and accessible introduction Jean-Paul Satre's existentialist book 'Being and Nothingness'.